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2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.—Boys: English—Chaucer, Milton, Coleridge (selections); Shakespeare, Julius Csesar; Historical English Grammar; composition ; literature. Latin —Livy, Virgil, Horace (selections); unseens in prose and verse; grammar; prose composition; history; antiquities. French—Selections in Prose and Verse; grammar; prose composition. Mathematics —Arithmetic, the whole subject ; mental; algebra, to binomial theorem (Form V), to surds (Form IV); Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, Books I-IV; Hall and Knight, Book VI (Form V); Godfrey and Siddons, Books I-IV (Form IV); trigonometry, to solution of triangles (Form V), to sin S + sin T formulae (Form IV). Science—Chemistry, inorganic ; metals and non-metals ; magnetism and electricity, to Junior Scholarship standard (Form V), to Matriculation standard (Form IV). Girls: English — Shakespeare's Twelfth Night; Tennyson's Holy Grail; Spenser's Faerie Queen, selections; selected prose, the Temple Reader; literature ; Nesfield's English Grammar and composition; parsing, analysis, composition, letter-writing, precis-writing. Latin—-Bradley Arnold's Latin Prose ; Composition ; North and Hillard's Prose ; Cicero's De Senectute ; Virgil's iEneid, selections; unseens in prose and verse; history, Horton's History of the Romans; Via Latina. French —Wellington College Grammar, Eve and Baudiss ; prose composition ; Selected Idioms, Bue ; the Wellington College Reader: and Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentiihomme. Mathematics—Arithmetic, the subject; Euclid, I, 11, and III; Algebra (VI), to the progressions ; (V) to easy quadratics; trigonometry (VI) to solution of triangles. Science —Botany and physiology as for Matriculation ; Denby and Lucas's Botany ; Furneaux' Physiology. Heat —Wright and Glazebrook. First Aid—Ambulance. Lowest. — Boys : English—Scott's Quentin Durward ; Blackmore's Lorna Doone ; Globe Poetry Reader ; grammar, composition, and spelling. Geography—Topographical and commercial, Europe and Britain ; physical, astronomical, mathematical, political. English History—Elementary course. Latin—Welch and Duffield's Accidence ; Beresford's First Latin Reader; composition-; Well's Latin Prose. French —Beuzemaker's First French Course ;■ grammar and composition. Non-Latin and Non-French—Book-keeping and commercial arithmetic ; drawing, freehand, scale, and geometrical; European history. Mathematics —Arithmetic (the whole subject), mental; algebra (to H.C. factor); geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, Books I and 11. Science—Wright's Physics ; elementary chemistry. Girls : English —Kingsley's Hereward the Wake ; Macmillan's Advanced Reader; literature, selected authors; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition; parsing and analysis, composition and letter-writing, spelling and punctuation. French —Hogben's Methode Naturelle, first 115 pages, with grammar and composition. Arithmetic—Fractions and decimals, reductions, practice, proportion, equations, irregular distributions, time and work problems, mental arithmetic. History—Ransome's Smaller History, to 1625. Geography—New Zealand and Australia; Europe, physical; Meiklejohn's Comparative Geography. Physiology: —Preparatory to Matriculation Class. First Aid and Ambulance—Fractures and bandaging; haemorrhage and its treatment; asphyxiation and its treatment. Botany —Root, stem, leaves, flowers, seeds; Gillies's Plant-life in Australia.

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